Ο Πρωταγόρας και η Ρητορική του Αριστοτέλη
Part of : Παρνασσός ; Vol.ΜΗ, No.1, 2006, pages 141-156
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141-156
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Protagoras and Aristotle’s Rhetoric
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The author attempts to investigate how one can evaluate the style of a speech, that the sophist Protagoras made to Socrates {Protagoras 316c-317c) through the rules that Aristotle formulates for the Rhetorical Art. Protagoras knows the rules governing the construction of a rhetorical text, a fact which mainly appears in the way he uses the expressive tools. In segment 1403b of his work The RhetoricArt, Aristotle notes that is not enough to express only the exact content of our thoughts, but it is necessary to connect them with the appropriate expressions. Only in this way the stylistic quality of our text will be achieved. In the speech of Protagoras, the author identifies the following elements which are used according to what the sophist wants to show each time: a) accuracy, b) clarity, c) simplicity, d) pomp, e) superlatives and f) aesthetic quality. The elements are those which Aristotle analyses in the third book of The Rhetoric Art. Finally, the author attempts to present in which cases Protagoras uses the above mentioned characteristics of rhetorical discourse in a way which is not scientific and is rather superficial.
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